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  Horseplayers scheming for years to cash in on that ample trend might have an easy way to do it now. But betting against Life Is Good, or any of a few other 3-year-olds, is not as much a get-rich-quick scheme as it is another method of hedging or even bridge jumping.   Borrowing a page from some foreign bookmakers, Circa Sports has taken the seven shortest-priced horses in its Derby futures and offered yes-no options on each of them. The “yes” prices match their odds to win May 1. The “no” prices are what players can lay to bet they will not win.

It is no secret that Kentucky Derby favorites this time of year tend not to win on the big day. It does not bode well for Life Is Good that 40 of the last 41 top choices on New Year’s Day failed on the first Saturday in May — or September.     At this time last year, Authentic was 16-1 at William Hill Nevada. That was a big drop from the 65-1 at which he closed in the first pool of the Churchill Downs pari-mutuel Kentucky Derby Future Wager. A win in the Sham last January changed everything. And then it changed all over again with the pandemic. Using that history now should come with a ...

January 5, 2021 07:43 PM It was supposed to be moving day last weekend in Kentucky Derby futures betting. Life Is Good was expected to be the catalyst for a serious deck shuffle among the new 3-year-olds.   Instead, he was an unimpressive winner in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita. He is still the consensus Derby favorite. But rather than plunging to unbackable odds here in Nevada, he might as well have taken the month off.   For a few hours Saturday, Circa shortened Life Is Good to +  850 before putting him back to +  950. William Hill Nevada kept him at 8-1, a co-favorite with...

Baffert barn readying for next Kentucky Derby assault Baffert barn readying for next Kentucky Derby assault Photo: Jonathan Lintner Trainer Bob Baffert earned entry into the Racing Hall of Fame thanks in large part to his unequaled success with 3-year-olds in the classics. Can he add to his record haul of six Kentucky Derby wins in 2021? Further insight will be provided starting Saturday when smashing debut winner Life Is Good makes his stakes and two-turn debut in the one-mile Sham Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park, a points-paying prep for the 2021 Kentucky Derby. By top stallion Into M...

  Like red is the color of a good score in golf, a bad score in bookkeeping and a Republican score in an election, it is also an indication of odds getting longer for a horse. Who among horseplayers does not want that?   There were lots of 2-year-olds with drifting odds in the last week, especially at Circa Sports here in Las Vegas.   Risk supervisor and racing specialist Paul Zilm turned 110 of the 199 choices in the Kentucky Derby futures at Circa into horses of a different color. Nearly half — 94, to be exact — went red, their odds growing longer and more attractive to bettors.